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semod92
Nov 04, 2026Occasional Reader
Hardening Azure Container Registry: Soft Delete & Retention Policies
Hi everyone, We are planning to enable soft delete on our Azure Container Registries (ACR), set to the maximum retention of 90 days. In addition, we want to introduce a retention policy for images a...
Kidd_Ip
Nov 05, 2026MVP
Azure Container Registry (ACR) supports both soft delete (up to 90 days) and retention policies for untagged manifests, but note that soft delete is still in preview and cannot be combined with retention policies. For tagged images, cleanup must be managed via scheduled purge tasks.